Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society
a local chapter of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology
(Division 39) of the American Psychological Association

presents an Online Saturday Morning Seminar

with

Steven Cooper, PhD

entitled  

The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits

Saturday, December 5, 2020
10:00am - 12:45pm

Online via Zoom

Click here for instructions on using Zoom  

Description of Program

This seminar will explore how internal "bad objects" are released (Fairbairn's term) in the process of analytic work. This program will primarily focus upon the analyst's countertransference experience of being bad, especially the reaching of limits in bearing that experience. Dr. Cooper is interested, in general, in the ways that the analyst's limits actually contribute to growth.

Presenter
Steven Cooper, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry (Part-time) at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. He served as Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues from 2007-2012 and is now Chief Editor Emeritus. He is currently on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Cooper is the author of many papers and three books in psychoanalysis. The first book, Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis, was published by The Analytic Press in 2000. His second book, A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference, was published by Routledge Press in 2010. His third book, The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Analyst’s Relationship to the Depressive Position, was published in 2016 by Routledge Press and is now translated into Italian by Routledge. He is an occasional commentator on film on the local National Public Radio station in Boston.

Schedule
10:00am Presentation
11:00am Break
11:10am Presentation
12:10pm Break
12:15pm Question and Answer Session
12:45pm Complete Evaluations and Adjourn.

Learning Objectives
After attending this intermediate-level online program in full, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and make productive use of transference and countertransference elements while helping patients release elements of the "bad object.”

2. Describe and effectively utilize the analyst's limits and the intrinsic elements of the analytic setting to promote the patient's growth.

3. Utilize the concept of a "new" object in the context of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. 

Participants
This online program is open to all APS members. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode. The material will be appropriate for clinicians with intermediate levels of experience and knowledge.

Registration
Professional and Scholar Members:
Free.  Please register online by December 3, 2020.

Early-Career Professional Members:
Free.  Please register online by December 3, 2020.

Graduate Student Members: 
Free.  Please register online by December 3, 2020.

Non-members:
Please join APS in order to participate in 2020-2021 programming.  

APS Membership
Eligible professionals can join APS or renew their membership for the 2020-2021 program year for $40. Scholars and Early-Career Professionals can also join/renew for $40. Graduate students may join or renew for $10.

Please address requests, questions, concerns and any complaints to Joyce Cartor, PhD.

American Psychological Association Approval Statement
Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Continuing Education
This online program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 2.5 continuing education credits. With full attendance and completion of an online program Evaluation and Learning Assessment, a certificate will be issued. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

To be eligible for CE credit, please:

• Make sure your Zoom name is identifiable. Use the Chat Box to inform program hosts if more than one person is watching via a single Zoom account.

• Be present for the entire program.

• A link to the program evaluation will be shared with participants via the Chat Box at the end of the presentation while the speaker is answering final questions. Participants will enter their names and email addresses on the evaluation so that APS can distribute certificates via email.

• Please complete the evaluation by 2pm (eastern) on the day of the program.

• CE certificates will be emailed following the event.

APS and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. APS and Division 39 are also committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods.

Contact
If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address requests, questions, concerns and any complaints to the APS President-Elect Joyce Cartor, PhD.

There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between Division 39, APS, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding sources that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. During the program, the validity/utility of the content and risks/limitations of the approaches discussed will be addressed, as indicated.  

Selected References/Recommended Reading

Cooper, S.H. (2014). The things we carry. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24, 621–636. 

Cooper, S.H. (2018) Playing in the darkness: Use of the Object and Use of the Subject. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66 (4), 743-765.

Levine, L. (2016). A mutual survival of destructiveness and its creative potential for agency and desire. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26(1):36-49

Ogden, T. (2010) Why read Fairbairn? International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91 (1), 101-118.

Tillman, J.G. (2018). Disillusionment and suicidality: When a developmental necessity becomes a clinical challenge.  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66 (2), 225-242.